discerning
discerning is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Discern. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
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- present participle. of Discern
- adjective. Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.
- adjective. having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
"a discerning critic"
"a discerning reader"
- adjective. able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive
"discerning taste"
"a discerning eye for color"
- adjective. quick to understand- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"a kind and apprehensive friend"
- adjective. unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
"a discerning editor"
"a discreet silence"
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